Deadline: May 29th, 2014
Payment: Exposure and Royalties

Flash fiction, Poetry, Short Stories (2,000 – 5,000 words)

Re-prints will also be considered.

I’ve always been intrigued by the ‘little cursed shop’ niche in horror. An odd sort of proprietor, hunched and haggard, vaguely describes his bizarre antiquities in riddles. Inevitably patrons buy the cursed objects and suffer consequences in any number of ways – depending on said purchase.

Submission guidelines:

Deadline for submissions – May 29th, 2014 – or until full.

Word Count: 2,000 – 5,000 words.

Please submit your manuscript as a *.rtf, *.doc or *.docx file (all other formats will automatically be rejected. Contact me prior to submitting if this presents an issue for you.)

Font and formatting: Please submit in Times New Roman, 12 point font; single line spacing. Please format the document to 1st line indentation of 1″. The page margin should be set to .1″ on all sides.

No headers, footers or page numbers.

Please check grammar.

Upon acceptance into the anthology, you agree that Horrified Press holds exclusive publishing rights for six months from the date of publication; after that date has passed, all intellectual property rights revert to the author with the proviso that Horrified Press retains distribution rights in the format of the contracted anthology.

This title will be available as an e-book and trade quality paperback.

Brian Barnett will be presiding over this anthology.

Email your submission as an attachment to: [email protected]
The email subject line must read “SUBMISSION – Cursed Curiosities – ‘your story title’” or your submission will not be considered for this anthology.

Successful applicants will be notified before the deadline has expired.

Via: Horrified Press.